Communion on the tongue - technical question

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Maximilian75 said:
I didn’t mean to claim that.

I meant that “the Church has been dealing with logistical/liturgical problems such as the correct disposition for Comminion on the tounge (COTT) since its beginning, so she knows what works best, practically speaking”

Didnt mean to say COTT is 2,000 years old.
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Max, you kinda did. It’s 10am on a Wednesday, are you in school and distracted? Or are you on school vacation? Perhaps time to get out and enjoy it a bit? Vacations like that don’t come once you’re an adult.
 
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The way hosts are made (thin and light), it helps to have something sticky (i.e., a tongue) so that the Host will not fall out. It’s not really a matter of “balance.”

Dan
 
Tulitas said:
Yes, because this has been misinformation for many years on CAF.

What do you care if I get agitated about something being presented as truth and it is not?

Nevermind, I know the answer.
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I find it amusing that you are getting agitated over a discussion about communion. There are many things to get agitated about in this world and I wouldn’t place this among any of them. It’s a discussion not a heated argument [at least not for me].

I posed my point as a question, not as a fact, because I wasn’t sure. I have been reading about it a bit more now and it seems, from Vatican sources, that it is believed the communion was indeed first taken in the hand, but also that many parts of the Catholic church and well-known figures have encouraged it to be take on the tongue.

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/details/ns_lit_doc_20091117_comunione_en.html
 
I hope someone doesn’t mind that I piggy back on this question since mine is a bit similar. How does one receive Communion in France? I only just thought of this since our rules come from the USCCB and I am sure there is a different governing body there. My mom is taking me and my daughter there in June and we are going to Notre Dame for Sunday Mass.
 
Maximilian75 said:
I’m in a study hall at the moment. Had an amazing spring break last week- was barely on CAF at all.

And I think the confusion comes from post 30.

By ‘this’, I didnt mean ‘COTT’ , i meant ‘Addressing practical, physical problems within the liturgy’.
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It’s great that you can use study hall to goof off, but perhaps you should focus on school when you’re at school. Your post did cause confusion.

The church has not been doing COTT for 2000 years., which is how post 9 reads. At best it started in the 300’s and perhaps not even cemented in all places until the early middle ages.

And even if was 2000 years old, recieving on the tounge isn’t exactly a natural human action.
 
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@UpUpAndAway may be able to answer that for you.
 
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Thank you for your concern.

I believe I have clarified, and if I havent, i’m sorry
 
Yes, the bishops’ conference in France is the CEF (Conférence des évêques de France, or “Conference of French Bishops”).

I assume you mean Notre-Dame in Paris.

Your usual Communion reception practice will be right at home there. I attend Mass there now and then (I don’t live in the area but go to Paris at least twice annually) and I have seen everything during Communion. In the hand or on the tongue, both are fine. You may receive standing or kneeling. Bow or genuflect before receiving if you will do so standing.

Note that there are no kneelers, prie-Dieu or Communion rails. Also, I’ve never seen the Precious Blood offered to the laity there, though it’s been years since I’ve been to a Sunday Mass at Notre-Dame. It’s definitely not offered during the week.

Remember that people come to Mass at Notre-Dame from all over the world. The priests don’t expect everyone to know the French norms. However you normally receive will be fine.

Hope this helps. Enjoy your trip 🙂
 
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Thank you! Yes, I meant Notre-Dame in Paris (although I am also interested in Saint-Germain-des-Prés because it’s closer to where we will be staying (and it’s still very historical).
 
Polak said:
Well I would go as far as to say I am close to certain that there have been numerous Catholic sources encouraging not to take communion in your hand. I am not saying it isn’t allowed, but it isn’t encouraged. I can provide you with some links if you wish.
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This should go well.
 
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is the oldest church in Paris. I believe it dates to the 6th century and was originally an abbey.

I’ve never attended Mass there, but being how all churches in Paris welcome visitors from all over the globe I assume that you could still receive Communion there however you usually do at home.

If you have time, you might want to take a peek inside Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, near the Panthéon (5th arrondissement). It’s the only church in Paris that has retained its roodscreen (choir screen, pictured below). The Husband and I got married in that church. 🙂
 
Argh - derailing my own thread:

If I were going to Paris, I would definitely want to go here:
Sainte-Chappelle, commissioned by King Louis IX (yes, St. Louis) to house his collection of relics. Consecrated in 1248.

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Thank you everyone for your replies and thoughts!
I guess I am left with the thought that although there is no way that the host could fall out of one’s mouth if using the “coin slot” way, for ease and expediency we just have to use the “sticking out our tongue way”.
 
If you are kneeling with your head back, the way you originally were supposed to be for receiving on the tongue, then your tongue is more flat and there is a plate jammed under your chin anyway. It gets more iffy when you stand.

However, I actually have received from lay ministers who tried to stick the host in like a “coin slot”; usually using an overhand method instead of underhand. Priests almost invariably use underhand. The lay ministers trying to put the host “in the slot” would often get part of their finger in my mouth, and (sorry for being gross but) would often get my spit on their finger, which grossed me out thinking about how many other people’s spit they had gotten on that finger before I reached them in the line. I never had this problem with the priests and I remember thinking the priests must have been really well trained as to how to distribute communion without contacting your mouth or spit with their fingers and without making me feel like I was a vending machine taking a quarter.

I switched to communion in the hand at a young age, partly because of this lay minister finger issue.
 
But if they got spit on their finger from others who were in line then when they reach for the eucharist and place it in your hand, their spit covered finger would still touch the eucharist you are about to consume, right?
 
The vast majority of people where I attend Mass, assuming it’s not a TLM, now receive in the hand, thus reducing the issue.

Of course, I do drink from the common cup. I just figure it’s an immune system booster
 
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